FleshContext

A blog by Anna Karkovska about yoga, asana, alignment, anatomy, yoga philosophy

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Yoga: Towards an Evidence-Based Practice

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A search of yoga science returns over a hundred million results on Google. Yet, a 2014 scoping review of yoga intervention componen...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Shedding Yoga's Nationalistic Skin

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It is well accepted by now that the world of yoga is undergoing change—a "paradigm shift" as posited by many—in terms of narr...
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Extreme Hardness and Extreme Flexibility: Survival Basics

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I saw this NYT article , "Why Are Americans So Fascinated with Extreme Fitness," making the rounds on FB yesterday and actually re...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Flexibility or Space?

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Using yoga (meaning asana here) to increase flexibility (the #1--and overwhelming--reason why people say they practice yoga, at least in t...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Rhomboids: Enter the Magician's Circle

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I was scrolling through my make-believe Facebook feed the other day and came across this Yoga Journal blog post , which was posted by Amy Ip...
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Allow Your Core to Happen

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I recently led a workshop titled "Allow Your Core to Happen." So much of what we think about the core propels us to work harder, t...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Walking as a Practice of Letting Go

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When I was doing Jenny Otto 's yoga as therapy training in 2010, I remember her telling us about Mary Dunn, the late Iyengar yoga teache...
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Anna Karkovska
Anna's passion for yoga and experience with its capacity to spur integration led her to become a yoga teacher in 2008. Anna's teaching is guided by a broad study of the yogic tradition, including her ongoing study of traditional and modern anatomy theories and biomechanics of movement, her own practice and (re)discovery of her body's potential, and the desire to decrease pain, increase function, and simply enjoy movement. Her classes are based upon applied anatomy and kinesiology and draw upon many different schools of yoga, structural integration, myofascial release and movement therapies. Students will discover how to engage optimally, work more effectively, and find greater physical ease in their practice - all with the aim of aligning with their unique muscular, skeletal and energetic blueprint. Anna's teaching style is precise and detailed with a few doses of dry humor thrown in for good measure. Anna's classes ask students to pay close attention to their alignment, position in space, and relation to gravity and to use the poses to serve them rather than serve the poses.
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